Parti Québécois has a lot of baggage, says minister responsible for anglo relations

The Parti Québécois should be doing more to quell the anxiety of the province's English-speaking population about its policies, says the director of a Canadian research thinktank.

Jack Jedwab, executive director of Association for Canadian Studies, said the government was being overly optimistic when it appointed Jean-Francois Lisée as the minister responsible for anglophone relations.

"It was naive to think that strategy would work … that it would significantly or even marginally diminish the type of anxiety that the anglophone community feels after a PQ victory," said.